Events

Cake and Prose is back in 2026, and we’re excited to kick the year off featuring local author, Judy Liu. Come join us at Apprentice Creative Space and hear Liu’s…

First Draughts, the monthly mixer for prose writers is back! Meet us in the backyard at The Wild Detectives on the third Tuesdays of each month to grab a book…

Poetry In Place is a project documenting the relationship of residents of Dallas with the Trinity River, one of the main geographical features motiving the placement of the city when…

Join us for the second installment of the Correspondence Project, a 3-part collaboration with LGBTQ history organization Badge Of Pride. Featuring performances of iconic texts from the LGBTQ literary canon…

Tap The Mic, our monthly open mic, is making a special appearance at Dallas Is Lit! Come out to Trinity Cider on Thursday, May 7th for a beverage, community and…

In uncertain times, the power of language to shape both the current moment and the world we move into. Narrative Power & The Futures We Create is a community-centered gathering…

Welcome to Late Night Lit: Vibez N Verzuz, where the vibes are lit and the poets definitely come out to spit. The Dallas Is Lit! poetry slam is back, and the…

The Dallas Is Lit! Book & Author Fair is back! Join us for a family-friendly day at Arts Mission Oak Cliff, featuring over a dozen vendors selling books and literary-adjacent…

Join us at 11am at the Dallas Is Lit Book & Author Fair for a FREE panel on writing genre fiction with Shaun Hamill, Kate Khavari and Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam,…

The Dallas Is Lit! Literary Festival closes out with the reading by contributors to the Common Language Project: Time. RSVP for the Common Language Project Reading